Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

MORTON — Decorating bright orange T-shirts was the order of the day for a dozen Native American girls one Tuesday in September. Some of the girls from the Lower Sioux Community at Morton ironed ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) - These days, Dakota - the native language of the Prairie Island Indian Community - isn’t widely spoken. But the tribe is trying to change that and the pandemic has offered them ...

FORT TOTTEN, N.D.-Inside a classroom on the Spirit Lake Nation reservation, a group of Dakota students are dedicating the next two years of their lives to preserving their language and strengthening ...

The largest mass execution in U.S. history occurred in Mankato on Dec. 26, 1862, when 38 Dakota were hanged. Language and history go hand in hand as class subjects, Wasicuna said. As his students add ...

When Joe Bendickson was growing up, first on the Lake Traverse Reservation near the Minnesota-South Dakota border and then in St. Paul, he did not speak Dakota, his ancestral tongue. Few did.

MINNEAPOLIS — Introduced in fall 2023, the University of Minnesota’s new Dakota language major is part of the movement throughout Dakota communities to increase the number of Dakota language speakers ...

FORT TOTTEN, N.D.--Inside a classroom on the Spirit Lake Nation reservation, a group of Dakota students are dedicating the next two years of their lives to preserving their language and strengthening ...

STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION — Sunshine Carlow is racing to build a generation of fluent Lakota and Dakota language speakers before it’s too late. Carlow, 40, helped lead a three-week Dakota/Lakota ...

RED WING — One thing Barry Hand is trying to get across to his students is this: Language is power. For the first time in years, students at Red Wing High School can take a class in the Dakota ...

When the city of Woodbury this summer chose names for four new city parks, it did so after a lengthy search including a consultant's effort to consider names in the Dakota language. The consultant ...

Terri Bruce knows firsthand how engaging in face-to-face conversations can change people’s minds. The fifth-generation resident of Rapid City, S.D., says personal interactions — along with a good deal ...